including potentially lilly.n gloucester county, police are focusing in on another and more sophisticated trafficking ring with links back to china. >> the organization here, behind the crime groups seems to be much swifter, much quicker, organized. they have gone through four prom sis in less than three months. >> this gag appears to be operating a nationwide network of brothels and moves their locations regularly to confuse the police. >> i think if you compare that with the other two known groups, they've been at a much lower level. they have taken a lot more time to get organized, their management chain hasn't been so good, las it? you are looking at a much more professionally organized outfit here. >> detective andy lee believes this new network as links to a major organized crime syndicate and is head bade known criminal. >> i know that he was born in 1959. he is chinese national. he is here, i believe, at the moment legally. he has previous convictions and previous arrests. and he is an elective member or

we're pleased to welcome lilly ledbetter to our show in person today, joining us in charlotte, northarolina. welcome. >> it is a pleasure. >> did you ever think in 1980, 1990 whenever you're working at the goodyear plant in alabama, they would be addressing millions of people? >> never. my ambition and life was to work hard, have a good job, raise my family, build a nest egg, play by the rules, and some day i could retire and enjoy the fruits of my savings and retirement. it did not work out like that because my employer did not play by the rules. they did not adhere to federal laws and guidelines. and i never dreamed i would be where i am today and have walked the millions of miles i have talking about pay equity. >> talk about when you first realized he were getting different pay the people performing the same job, the man in your plant. >> i learned when i went to work one evening, someone had left an anonymous tip that had my name and three men -- there were four of us that have the same exact job, just different shifts. my pay was 40% less than any one of those three. but the fi

the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. julian castro, mayor of san antonio, texas, delivered the keynote address at the democratic national convention. >> mitt romney, quite simply, doesn't get it he visited a university in ohio a few months ago and gave students there a little entrepreneurial advice. start a business, he said. but how? borrow money from your parents if you have to. gee, why didn't i think of that? some people are lucky enough to borrow money from his parents, but that should not determine whether you can pursue your dreams. not in america, not here, not in the 21st century. i don't think governor romney meant any harm. i think he is a good guy. he just has no idea how good he has had it. [applause] we know and our free market economy, some will prosper more than others. what we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance. and the thing is, mitt romney and republican party are perfectly comfortable with that america. in fact, that's exactly what they're promising us. the romney/ryan bu

the lilly led better fair pay act. let me bring in talk show host michael smerconish, senior writer allison samuels, author of "what would michelle do wo." i will start off with you since you are the only one with a book about the first lady. she said they wanted to remind you of the values of her husband. this is not the same pitch ann romney was asked to do. we know the president of course, but what is her challenge today? >> i think it is to remind people how much her husband cares about everyone, how he wants everyone to enjoy that dream of economic, sort of parody, that he still has that desire it see everyone succeed. i think that's been lost the last couple months of the campaign. i think michelle gives him that face, that face of genuine kindness and compassion for your fellow man. michelle does that very well. >> ann, let me bring you in as well. you think about, especially during the campaign season, four years ago, how there was an attempt by the president's rivals, candidate obama at the time, to demonize m

the lilly ledbetter case is where you wrote an emotionally charged to send. you read from the bench, is a rare act. can you reflect on that and how it felt to have your request in the dissent answered? it was passed and the first law that president obama signed. >> i should preface my answer by saying when an opinion it is ready to be released, the author of the majority opinion will summarize the decision from the bench. not read every word of the often long opinion. then we will note that it has been filed, period. the dissent's are not ordinarily summarize from the bench unless you feel the court that wrong and it egregiously so, and that is what i thought in the lilly ledbetter case. i think most of you have heard about this case. the ledbetter -- lilly ledbetter it was a manager for the goodyear tire plant in alabama. she was the lone woman in such a position at that plant. when she was in gauge in the 197's, she got the starting salary for people in that position -- which was engaged. over the year her pace slipped in relation to her male peers -- her p

what result is best for eli lilly? >> i think, first of all, lilly and our industry have not tried to play partisan politics. we have a set of principles that are important for fostering medical innovation. we have articulated those principles clearly to people in both parties, even in the midst of divisive government. one might say in the u.s. in the last several years we've seen renewal of prescription drug user fee act, which is essential to interact with the fda. patent with unanimous votes in the house and senate. we continue to push forward new medicines and new medical advances regardless of who's in the white house or who sits in congress. >> what's clear, governments around the world -- japan's a big case. do you a lot of business in japan. they are going to make it easier for challenges -- or making it easier for nonpatented drugs to get into the marketplace. so, where is that -- that provides a bigger challenge. for companies to generate drugs and make money out of them and get consumers to get drugs cheaply

many thought dna was bigger than just fingerprinting, coming up, we'll hear from lilly haskell and why this case seems destined for review by the supreme court. and in the newsroom abc 7 news. >> thank you very much. >> there are two senior justice department officials leaving their jobs after calling investigation into operation fast and furious cites management failures and recommends discipline against 14 justice employees for their role in the operation there is a report founderic holder had no prior knowledge of the operation. >> there is republican presidential nominee says he can help poor and middle class americans more than president obama telling supporters that the fundamental question is not which cares more, but which one can help them. there are comments two days after a video sure fased 44% of americans pay no taxes. there is a new poll under scores importance of voter turnout. an associated press poll finds 47% of the likely voters support mr. obama. 46% like rom neechl a survey of all adults shows mr. obama with a commanding lead over his republican rival. and there is

surely you meant lilly ledbetter cost case to be covered. my colleagues have given a posthumous reading to this law. the ball is now in congress's court to correct what i see as a misperception by my colleagues of the will of congress. inside two years, the lilly ledbetter act passed overwhelmingly, bipartisan support, and it was the first law that obama signed when he took office. >> this question comes from the auditorium here in the no. 5-4 decision said became very high profile -- a number of 5-4 decisions that became very high profile., the court was looking more like a political actor. how do you answer that charge? >> inevitably, there will be cases that will divide that way. overall, our agreement rate is much higher than our disagreement rate. year.had 15 5-4's last this agreement is interesting. -- disagreement is interesting. was there something? >> i think so. so you're saying that agreement is not news. it is boring. it is conflict that gets people's attention. yes. and in the cases of constitutional questions, there are very un

didn't want to soil his lilly-blue collar in the townships. so, humanize your family? check.oes she need to do anything else? >> i hate to have anybody have to go through a patriotism test. >> is she patriotic? >> she's got to show a lot of love for her country. >> she's also got to be patriotic. >> she's got to talk about her patriotism. >> jon: she's got to. she's a democrat. she must prove she loves america as opposed to republicans, who everyone knows love america. they just hate half the people living in it. so basically -- basically -- basically -- [applause] >> jon: basically, apparently they're all here tonight. basically, in america's eyes, she needs to go from this, to this. oh. and, she's got 15 minutes. go. >> i've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. that is why i love this country. >> jon: oh, "this country." excuse me, her name is america. perhaps a different choice of outfit could have helped. thank you. now, while she may not have accomplished her mission of convincing doubters that she's a patriotic human, she can clearly bear live y

. >> reporter: lilly had been in hollywood a week when she answered an ad on craigslist for an actionilm called "desert warrior. ". >> first job. >> reporter: she met this man seen here for the first time on u.s. television. she says he was in charge of everything. >> was it your sense he was the writer and producer? >> yes, i believe he was the writer. he definitely was the producer. he was the one writing checks and handing out the money, and running the show. >> reporter: under the name sam basile? >> yes. >> the shoot weird, but never heard talk of politics or religion. they thought they were making a low-budget cheesy film with a little plot. >> this was the middle east, 2,000 years ago, and who is george. >> george turned out ton the >> george turned out to be the muhammad character. >> he did. and lilly had no lines, but was asked to come in after the shooting was done to dub her voice over that of another actress. other actresses she says went to the same sound studio also after the shooting was done to record the words that sparked a firestorm. >> brought the actors in in pos

did you sign lilly ledbetter. >> paul ryan was against lilly ledbetter, which says that women will betion, and they need to protect their bodies. the idea that they wouldn't allow abortion in the case of rape or incest is it horrendous. >> stephanie: yeah, and paul ryan said, it's a start where mitt romney is on abortion meaning mitt romney if anything has not come to the center in this general election we will be pushed further and further to the right. >> stephanie: i think the problem with mitt romney is he has been pushed all the time. we have not heard him stand up for one thing, and say to his face, no that's tough. no we can't do that. i feel sorry for the guy in a sense. and you really shouldn't pity the republican nominee but i do. >> it really feels like he doesn't believe in anything beside destroys companies so he can profit it from. >> when you are in private equity, beliefs are not what you are judged on you are judged on your results. so his whole experience is not what it means to be president. >> stephanie: he ran against a guy named ted kennedy -- >> i remember, yes

that's what lilly ledbetter is about.ate a level playing field for fair pay. >> bill: now, you are one of our great labor leaders here in this country. you have how many members here from the american federation of teachers? >> we have -- we have delegates -- we have about 120 delegates who were elected by their localities and communities to come here and represent them. >> bill: that message of getting out there and working like we have never worked before -- is that resinating across the labor movement in this country? are the unions really going to be involved? what do you hear from your fellow labor leaders? >> the answer is yes. what you have here is you have -- the difference between the -- the republican party that has more and more become the party of money, and the party of, you know, trying to create anger as a way of, you know getting people out to vote versus you have the democratic party that's trying to create a message of hope opportunity, empowerment, innovation and billing an enduring country, so we'll be

lilly the cockatoo has been uttering vulgar phrases. the pet's potty mouth has been documented in a police report. and the owner is now fighting a citation. >> did they let the bird out next to a preschool? . >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> one family in canada decided to mix farming with technology, yielding some a-mazing results. a corn maze has been named the large nest the world. it measures over 312,000 square feet. to prove the qr code worked. it rented a helicopter and filmed themselves scanning it. >>> in germany, speed demons have taken farm equipment to a whole mu level. 80 teams from across europe competed in the two-day tractor pulling championships where high-powered tractor prototypes must tow a tractor down the track. they are made from old planes or dragster engines. boasting up to 10,000 horsepower. >>> this weekend in wales, it was all about divers. in the eighth of nine events in this year's cliff diving series, hundreds of spectators w

but this fight became bigger than lilly ledbetter. today it's about my daughter.t's about my granddaughter. it's about women and men. it's about families. it's about... it's about equality. and justice. this cause, which bears my name, is bigger than me. it's as big as all of you, which began as my own is now our fight. a fight for the fundamental american values that make our country great. and with president barack obama, we're going to win. thank you very much and god bless america. [cheering and applause] >> ifill: lilly ledbetter, alabama native whose name is on an act about pay equity. she's an alabama native. >> woodruff: and probably the most memorable line from her, maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to somebody with a swisss bank account, but that's how much money they're talking about getting their paychecks increased. >> ifill: we keep hearing about that swiss bank account. here comes deval patrick, who will talk about mitt romney's record as governor of massachusetts. he's governor romney's successor. >> good evening. are you fired up? [cheering

working with president obama, democrats passed a lilly better pay fair act to strengthen women's rightse workplace. we repealed don't ask don't tell so our troops can serve the country they love regardless of whom they love. we made college more affordable. house democrats passed the dream act. but senate republicans blocked it. with president obama, democrats enacted the toughest consumer safeguards in history. to protect main street from wrecklessness of some on wall street. democrats passed healthcare reform to allow americans the freedom to pursue their passion, to make healthcare a right, not a privilege, and to ensure that being a woman is no longer a preexisting medical condition. our freedom is secured everyday by our men and women in uniform. we must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. we thank them for keeping america the land of the free and the home of the brave. this year, we are determined reelect an extraordinary president, who in no ordinary times, led america back from the brink of depression while republicans tried to block him at every turn. this election offers

speakers include lilly ledbetter, and martin o'malley, julien castro, and also family night. the president's half sister will speak. so will first lady's brother craig robinson, in tonight's keynote address of course delivered by the 37-year-old mayor from san antonio, and determined to have an hispanic leader deliver the keynote and democrats are hoping castro will repeat the performance of another former rising star. another harvard law grad raised by a single mom. a guy by the name of barack obama, the keynote in 2004. castro introduced by his twin brother, state representative and congressional candidate, not opposed, he'll be a member of the cabinet. a speech during a dnc walkthrough yesterday. >> the first lady i'm sure is going to deliver a very positive message. governor o'malley has an optimistic message as welling. of course partisanship in there. i'm at a democratic convention, but it will be optimistic. the speech is an optimistic speech. >> by the way, one question about this week's program was answered definitively this morning. the obama campaign including camp

. >> lilly had been in hollywood a week when she answered an ad on craigslist for an action adventure film called desert warrior. >> just moved out here. >> she met this man, sam bacile seen here for the first time on u.s. television. she says he was in charge of everything. >> was it your sense he was the writer and producer? >> yes. i really believe he was the writer. he definitely was the producer. he was the one writing the checks, handing out the money. he was running the show. >> under the name sam bacile. >> uh-huh. >> the shoot, a little weird but never heard any talk of politics or religion. the actors thought they were making a low budget cheesy film with little plot. >> we did wonder what it was about. they kept saying george. we're like this is the middle east 2,000 years ago. who is george? we don't normally ask questions. >> george turned out to be the muhammed character. >> he did. >> the script handed out piecemeal, sometimes late at night the day before a shoot and lilly had in lines and was asked to come in after the shooting was done to dub her voice-over that of an

that's why he signed the lilli ledbetter pay act, to help women get equal pay for equal work. >> president obama was not in north carolina for his wife's speech. he was watching in d.c. with their two daughters. and, of course, right before the keynote speech last night, governor o'malley took the stage and abc 2 news' linda stow breaks down what he talked about and the reaction. linda, a big focus on jobs, right? >>reporter: yeah, he used maryland as an example, pointing to the state's 29 mobilities of job growth in the private sector. o'malley was on the attack as he took the stage in charlotte. he spoke for about nine minutes. he criticized romney, saying his policies would take the country back. his message to voters? give obama another four years in office and another chance to keep moving america forward. >> let us move forward, not back by reelecting barack obama, president of the united states. god bless you all. >>reporter: it's been widely speculated that o'malley is speaking a presidential run in 2016. politico is reporting that later this morning o'malley is set to have breakfa

just tell them what they wanted to hear but to tell them the truth, i think maybe he was guilding the lilly a little bit on manufacturing in the sense that i don't think anyone believes manufacturing will ever come back the way we knew it in the past, but when he talked about having -- being able to educate the american public so that we are able to have the -- to be able to take the jobs that are out there, i thought that was very important for people to hear and for him to basically say this is my plan going forward, you have to be educated enough to take the jobs of the future. >> is that a reason for saying, my goodness, let's put him back in the presidency after the disaster of four years? >> pat, in a sense, he laid out all of these goals, but he didn't say howie accomplish them. we all know there's a republican minority/majority on capitol hill that's going to obstruct everything debt. he's counting on the election to break the fever. >> let me just say one thing. when he announced his stimulus program he said unemployment will not get above 1%, it will be below 6%. by his own terms

working with president obama, democrats passed a lilly better pay fair act to strengthen women's rightse workplace. we repealed don't ask don't tell so our troops can serve the country they love regardless of whom they love. we made college more affordable. house democrats passed the dream act. but senate republicans blocked it. with president obama, democrats enacted the toughest consumer safeguards in history. to protect main street from wrecklessness of some on wall street. democrats passed healthcare reform to allow americans the freedom to pursue their passion, to make healthcare a right, not a privilege, and to ensure that being a woman is no longer a preexisting medical condition. our freedom is secured everyday by our men and women in uniform. we must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. we thank them for keeping america the land of the free and the home of the brave. this year, we are determined reelect an extraordinary president, who in no ordinary times, led america back from the brink of depression while republicans tried to block him at every turn. this election offers

working with president obama, democrats passed a lilly better pay fair act to strengthen women's rightse workplace. we repealed don't ask don't tell so our troops can serve the country they love regardless of whom they love. we made college more affordable. house democrats passed the dream act. but senate republicans blocked it. with president obama, democrats enacted the toughest consumer safeguards in history. to protect main street from wrecklessness of some on wall street. democrats passed healthcare reform to allow americans the freedom to pursue their passion, to make healthcare a right, not a privilege, and to ensure that being a woman is no longer a preexisting medical condition. our freedom is secured everyday by our men and women in uniform. we must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. we thank them for keeping america the land of the free and the home of the brave. this year, we are determined reelect an extraordinary president, who in no ordinary times, led america back from the brink of depression while republicans tried to block him at every turn. this election offers

we have the lilly bed doom better act where we have not seen from mitt romney that he would support thathe remained silent about that. and i think that sends a strong message to women that here is a man who wants to be the president of the united states but won't make a comment on one of the single most important pieces of legislation affecting women and their economic health in this country. >> you know we heard is what the problem is with the democrats. barack obama has said that this unemployment rate is a new normal that we have to expect it. and what we just heard now was that this 8.1 is good. the reason it's 8.1 and down from 8.3 to 8.1 is because 380,000 people walked out of they are not looking anymore. for every person that found a job this last month, four left the job market. this is unacceptable. >> but, bay, it seems to me coming out of the democratic convention there was one issue that was talked about that the democrats had refrained and the president had refrained from talking about on the campaign trail before, which was how the country got to the fiscal situation that

s he's ended a lot of predatory lending policies he signed the lilly ledbetter fair at fair pay for women act he's taken away from the banks as much of the student loan business in ansi palosi was running the house of representatives they produced literally hundreds of strong pieces of legislation that would have raised wages brought our manufacturing jobs home from overseas and made the rich pay their fair share for the cost of running this country almost all however were defeated by republican filibusters in the same. it's going to take a lot to undo the damage of thirty years or reaganomics but it begins by asking the right question which is not are we better off than we were four years ago but we're are we better off than we were thirty years ago that needs to be the message coming out of the d.n.c. over the next few days joining me now is senator ben cardin from maryland senator cardin welcome to the program. senator cardin. walking to the program senator. senator can you harris. senator can you hear me. hello senator. hello senator. apparently not. ok now we're going to go to live c

so, the speaker cards are from sharon hewett, robert woods, lilly ratcliff, jamil patterson, peter alexander, and ace washington. please come up. you each have two minutes. and we also have shaman walton. >>> hi, i'm [speaker not understood], and i did not fill out a card. i do apologize. one thing we're talking about solutions. first i wanted you to picture this. my kids' friends, when i encourage them to go back to school after they graduate, say, hey, i'm not going to live beyond 21. what for? there's hopelessness. solution, maybe we need cameras in the classrooms. maybe we need to have accountability that teachers, the mayor need to be held accountable financially with the rates of failure. we have a society full of people. we need to be treated as human beings. i think we need books, we need black teachers. we need books that deal with historical contributions of blacks. i think we need subject matter of blacks. i think that the biggest thing is these kids don't feel cared about. they don't feel like they're a part of anything. they get access to guns more than they get to the school bo

i was shortchanged, but this fight became bigger than lilly ledbetter. it's about women and men. it's about families. it's about -- it's about equality. and justice. this cause which bears my name is bigger than me. it's as big as all of you, which began as my own, is now our fight. a fight for the fundamental american values that make our coun country great and with president barack obama, we're going to win. thank you very much and god bless america! >> you could hear every inch of possum trot, alabama, which is where she is from. a powerful voice in the face of the lilly ledbetter fair pay act, which is the first law signed by president obama. she has been a very powerful surrogate for him. the next speech is deval patrick, the current governor of massachusetts. after mitt romney left after one term. >> are you fired up? are are you ready to go? well, i hope so. this is the election of a lifetime. because more in any one candidate or policy, what's at stake is the american dream. that dream, the ability to imagine a better way for ourselves and our fa

i thought this was all taken care of with lilly ledbetter and all of that. >> lilly ledbetter helps ale more recourse if they think they've been discriminated against but there's still a big problem with wage inequality in the united states and with this -- what this study did, it took the number that some people may have heard which is women earn 77 cents on the dollar. >> bill: right. >> compared to men. and it looks at it by congressional district. basically finds that it's a problem in every congressional district. whether you're on the coast or you're in the heartland women are earning less than men for the same kind of work. >> bill: across the board. >> across the board. >> bill: this isn't just in right to work states or red states. >> it's everywhere. sexism obviously in the workplace is still a problem. it even found there's a couple of congressional districts in louisiana, kind of ranks them. from worst to best. a couple of the districts in louisiana, women are earning 60 cents for a man's dollar and so it really just shows how big of a problem this is. obviously president

the lilly ledbetter ad provides struggle protection for women and some states are doing now the opposite, weakening women's legal protections against discrimination. it was brought to my attention the other day that extraordinary money wielded by a few men behind the far right conservative movement is aimed perhaps not so much at electing romney and ryan, but in fact in the senate. who knows what would happen if that were in republican hands. so all right, why? why? when women are 51% of the work force, 57% of higher educational degrees, primary care givers at home, primary consumer force in the marketplace, why have we done so little to protect ourselves in this political arena? so little to demand equal representation? [applause] i want you to imagine something with me. imagine, if there was to be one day, say, the monday after mother's day, and easily communicated now by our social media, when women choose to stay home, not to gather anywhere or under the aegis of any organization, but just stay home. to sit down for a day and gather our collective breaths. can you imagine what kind o

lilly haskell involved in a scuffle with police during an antiwar demonstration, she's the district attorney throughout the case she was never charged but before released from jail, police told her she had to give up a swab sample of dna or spend more days in jail. >> you're likely to get out tomorrow if you don't refuse, if you refuse, probably will be in until tuesday i that was saturday. >> she's now suing claiming the swab was a violation of her 4th amendment protection. >> taking genetic issue is a feature. >> and the california law is unconstitutional and an attorney for the state argued it's no more invasive than fingerprinting. >> this is the same information obtained by the state when it develops profile versus when it collects fingerprints. >> the deputy attorney general says it's a search, but several judges appear not to buy that oop i wind up now leaving behind in the custody of the government the details of when medical condition, my parodies. >> the aclu was encouraged by the judge's question. >> surprised i didn't have speeches that i had prepared. >> he knows this case is a

>> as lilly dion said she will probably chalk this up to experience. cindy garcia said she retained council but knack knakoula she their family has been put in danger. >> you heard about the 50 alleged co conspirators of what they say was a massive plot. it sounds as if in labia the movie didn't play any role in the war but played a role in the big mob outside but not the murder plot to kill the ambassador and the others. >> the film at least the trailer was released back in july. the violent reaction took place on the anniversary of 9-11. the outrage may have been real but it was used for cover for the attack on the united states and western interest. >> with the presidential election 51 days away not to talk about the impact the events would have on the last days in the race for the white house. we will talk about that and more after this. [ male announcer ] if you had a dollar for every dollar car insurance companies say they'll save yoby switching, you'd have like, a ton of dollars. but how are they saving you those dollars? a lot of companies migh

that is why he signed the lilly ledbetter pay act to help women get fair work. that is why he cut taxes for working families and small businesses and fought to get the auto industry back on its feet. that is how he brought our economy from the edge of collapse to creating jobs again, jobs you can raise a family on. good jobs, right here in the united states of america. when it comes to the health of our families, barak refused to listen to all of those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day. another president. he didn't care whether it was theasy thing to do politically, no, that is not how he was raised. he cared that it was the right thing to do. he did it because he believes that here in america, our grandparents should be able to afford their medicine, our kids should be able to see a doctor when they're sick. and nobody in this country should ever go broke because of an accident or an illness. and, he believes that women are more than capable of making our own choices about our bodies and our health care. that is what my husband stands fo

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome lilly ledbetter from jacksonville, alabama.illy ledbetter, and i'm here tonight to say what a difference four years makes. [cheering and applause] some of you may know my story, how for 19 years i worked as a manager at a tire plant in abama, and some of you may have lived a similar story. after nearly two decades of hard, proud work, i found out that i was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. i went home, talked to my husband and we decided to fight. we decided to fight for our family and for your family, too. [applause] we sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an american value. that fight took me ten years. it took me all the way to the supreme court. and in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime and my retirement just because i'm a woman. the supreme court told me that i should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less, even though i didn't know about it for nearly two decades.